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enThe Case Of China: How Migration Shapes Political Attitudes and Participation in Origin Communitieshttps://barnard.edu/events/case-china-how-migration-shapes-political-attitudes-and-participation-origin-communities
<div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A lecture by Yao Lu</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventdatedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Tuesday, December 2, 2014</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventtimedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">6 PM</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventlocation field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomyevents field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type-3" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">lecture</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-54" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Asia</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-25" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">migration</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-69" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">China</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>This presentation examines the consequences of migration for political transformation in origin communities in China. Lu broadens previous scholarly focus on the transnational activism of politically conscious migrants to include “unselfconscious transnationalism” that is more common and potentially more influential. Yao Lu is assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University. Her research focuses on how migration and immigration intersect with social, economic, and political processes across diverse contexts. She is especially interested in understanding the role of migration in social and political change in migrant-sending areas.</p>
<p><em>Information: <a href="http://fom.barnard.edu">fom.barnard.edu</a></em></p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2014-12-02T18:00:00-05:00">Dec 2 2014 - 6:00pm</span></div></div></div>Wed, 03 Dec 2014 03:00:00 +0000lstuffle38321 at https://barnard.eduYoung Women’s Leadership Workshop kicks off 6th Annual Global Symposium in Shanghaihttps://barnard.edu/news/young-womens-leadership-workshop-kicks-6th-annual-global-symposium-shanghai
<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-111" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Athena Center</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-39" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">liberal arts</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-10" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">global</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-34" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">leadership</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-69" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">China</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="320" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/x5v6_9oTDrQ" width="480"></iframe></p>
<p>On Sunday March 16, Barnard’s 2014 Young Women’s Leadership Workshop took place at the High School Affiliated to Fudan University in Shanghai. More than 75 girls from 20 high schools participated in this program designed and facilitated by <a href="https://barnard.edu/news/barnard-announces-global-symposium-student-fellows" target="_blank">Barnard’s Global Symposium Student Fellows</a>. The event preceded Barnard’s sixth annual Global Symposium, “<a href="https://barnard.edu/news/barnard-gathers-chinese-women-leaders-sixth-annual-global-symposium" target="_blank">Women Changing China</a>,” which was held on Wednesday March 19 at the Portman Ritz Carlton in Shanghai.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-image" height="147" style="float:left;margin:0 1em 1em 0;" width="220" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg_small/public/ywlw_01.jpg?itok=QtRCpYGA" />Sunday’s program began with remarks from Dean of Enrollment Management Jennifer Fondiller, who spoke about Barnard’s liberal arts curriculum and on the history of the College’s Global Symposia Series. Participants also heard from Danna Zhu, a former VISP student at Barnard and now chief program officer for Bridging Education and Mobility (BEAM), as well as Kathryn Kolbert, director of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies.</p>
<p>Following the introductory remarks, the Student Fellows and participants broke into smaller groups for a hands-on workshop, which encouraged the high school girls to think in new ways about how they can use their existing leadership skills to make a positive impact. They were asked to identify a problem that they see in their community and develop a step-by-step plan to find a solution. The girls presented their action plans to the rest of their group, and with the help of the Barnard student facilitators, learned to form an “elevator pitch” to explain their plan.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-image" height="147" style="float:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em;" width="220" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg_small/public/ywlw_group_workshop_3.jpg?itok=QeJQ6e5R" />“Overall, the students responded confidently to the challenge of coming up with a community project,” said Adair Kleinpeter-Ross '14. Her group’s ideas included connecting high school student volunteers with the young children of migrant workers to provide academic and other support, and creating a 'self-cook day,' where students would learn cooking skills, while also gaining insight into nutrition and the hard work that their kitchen staff does every day. </p>
<p>The group facilitated by Julia Qian '15 came up with ideas for a school recycling program, as well as a program that would create more social activities for children who sometimes feel isolated because of China’s one-child policy. In the group run by Cinneah El-Amin '16, the girls presented ideas for a vocational training program for migrant workers and a program to rebuild schools in impoverished areas of China—while also discussing how they might scale these efforts to serve other countries too. Similarly, the participants in the group run by Hilary He '14 were interested in identifying projects with long-term potential, and came up with plan for a biannual competition to redesign school uniforms. </p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-image" height="147" style="float:left;margin:0 1em 1em 0;" width="220" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg_small/public/ywlw_67.jpg?itok=6-SobdnG" />As an exercise in public speaking, problem solving, and collaborative planning, the workshop pushed all participants—both the Student Fellows and the high school girls—to consider their individual leadership attributes. “The girls weren’t just exploring a wide range of issues in their communities that they felt compelled to change,” said He. “They also demonstrated a diverse set of leadership skills by contributing to their groups in unique, personal ways.”</p>
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</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 04:35:43 +0000avine33506 at https://barnard.eduInternational Women's Day 2014https://barnard.edu/news/international-womens-day-2014
<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-38" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">activism</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics/bcrw" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">BCRW</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-29" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">community</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-3" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">culture</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-21" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">equality</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-18" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">gender</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-19" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">feminism</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-17" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">women</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-10" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">global</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-54" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Asia</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-104" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Caribbean, Central and South America</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-58" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Middle East</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-69" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">China</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Barnard is proud to celebrate International Women's Day! The global holiday is designed to celebrate women’s extraordinary accomplishments and achievements, and inspire the next generation of women leaders while casting light on gender inequity that still exists. In honor of this special day, Barnard will host a symposium on Wednesday, March 12, <a href="http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/african-womens-rights-and-resilience/">African Women’s Rights and Resilience</a>, to discuss the most urgent challenges confronting those involved African women’s social justice movements.</p>
<p>Below, Barnard invites you to enjoy videos and podcasts of recent campus conversations, lectures, events, and more featuring amazing women from around the globe.</p>
<h3><b>Dare to Use the F-Word: Young Feminists Around the World</b></h3>
<h5><b>BCRW's </b><span class="s1"><b><i><a href="http://bcrw.barnard.edu/podcast-sections/dare-to-use-the-f-word/">Dare to Use the F-Word</a> </i></b></span><b> podcast tells the stories of millennial feminist activists. These two episodes focus on young women in different areas of the globe. The first episode in the series includes interviews with youth mentor Mary Mwende from Kenya, peace activist Meena Sharma from Nepal, and women’s rights activist Nini Chanturia from Georgia. The second episode focuses on the story of Nilab Nusrat. </b>Nilab is a 17-year-old Afghan woman who survived her father’s self-immolation; lived in an Afghan prison; was separated from her home and from her family; and is now working to improve the lives of women and children in Afghanistan.</h5>
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<h4>Nepal, Kenya, Georgia </h4>
<iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/138072095&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_artwork=true"></iframe><h4>Afghanistan </h4>
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<h3>Locations of Learning: Transnational Feminist Practices</h3>
<h5>The <a href="http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/locations-of-learning-transnational-feminist-practices/#info">2014 Scholar &amp; Feminist Conference</a> brought together scholars from across diverse disciplines and regions to explore how transnational feminisms help us to analyze and respond to recent global transformations, such as the Arab Spring, the occupy movements, and other widespread protests aimed at transforming existing systems of governance.</h5>
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<h3>Barnard Global Symposium</h3>
<h5 class="p1"><a href="https://barnard.edu/global/symposia/past-symposia">Barnard’s Global Symposium series</a> was launched in 2009 with four main goals: to provide a dynamic forum for discussion of women's issues in regions where such opportunities do not readily exist; to create a network of women leaders from around the world; to inspire young women about their own leadership potential; and to provide an opportunity for Barnard, as an American college, to learn from women in other parts of the world and bring their stirring stories back to our students. The sixth annual event will take place in Shanghai, China in March 2014.</h5>
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<h4>2009 Global Symposium: China</h4>
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<h4>2010 Global Symposium: United Arab Emirates</h4>
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="320" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ckX2XSfQw7s" width="480"></iframe></p>
<h4>2011 Global Symposium: South Africa</h4>
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="320" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/feyIvW81SDo" width="480"></iframe></p>
<h4>2012 Global Symposium: India</h4>
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="320" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/4fYEPIZTU68" width="480"></iframe></p>
<h4>2013 Global Symposium: Brazil</h4>
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<h3>Barnard's International Artists Series: Zadie Smith</h3>
<h5>The <a href="https://barnard.edu/news/writers-zadie-smith-nadeem-aslam-headline-barnard-international-artists-series">Barnard International Artist Series</a> brings writers, filmakers, dancers, dramatists, visual artists, architects, and composers from around the world to speak at Barnard about their work. On November 14, 2013, acclaimed British author Zadie Smith came to Barnard to discuss her work and read from her short story, <em>The Embassy of Cambodia.</em></h5>
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<h3>Leymah Gbowee Commencement Address 2013</h3>
<h5 class="p1"><a href="https://barnard.edu/news/barnard-welcomes-nobel-laureate-leymah-gbowee-distinguished-fellow-social-justice">Leymah Gbowee</a>, Liberian peace activist and recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, <a href="https://barnard.edu/news/nobel-peace-prize-winner-leymah-gbowee-urges-graduates-step-out-shadows">delivered the keynote address</a> at Barnard College’s 121st Commencement on May 19, 2013, at Radio City Music Hall. Gbowee spoke before an audience of about 5,000, including Barnard’s 600 graduates along with faculty, trustees, family, and friends.</h5>
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<h3>A Global Conversation: Why the UN Must Focus on Women's Leadership</h3>
<h5>On September 24, 2013, Barnard College and the <a href="https://barnard.edu/womeninpublicserviceproject">Women in Public Service Project</a>, in partnership with the Woodrow Wilson Center, hosted "A Global Conversation: Women Leaders Respond to the United Nations General Assembly." The event brought together women global leaders like keynote speaker Atifete Jahjaga, President of Kosovo, with young women leaders from universities across the country.</h5>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:20:22 +0000rdouglas32821 at https://barnard.eduBarnard Announces Global Symposium Faculty Fellowshttps://barnard.edu/news/barnard-announces-global-symposium-faculty-fellows
<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-36" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">education</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-18" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">gender</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-54" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Asia</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-69" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">China</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>In March, Barnard's sixth annual global symposium, “Women Changing China,” will take place in Shanghai, China. In conjunction with this event, three faculty members have been selected as Global Faculty Fellows, and will travel to Shanghai to attend the symposium, engage with panelists and audience members, participate in research related to their fields, and create and solidify collaborations and connections with colleagues in the region. This year's faculty Fellows are:</p>
<p><strong><a href="#Hilary">Hilary Callahan</a>, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences<br /></strong><strong><a href="#Yvette">Yvette Christiansë</a>, Professor of English and Africana Studies<br /><a href="#Colleen">Colleen Thomas-Young</a>, Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Dance</strong></p>
<p>The Fellows were chosen by Barnard’s grants committee based on applications outlining current work or ideas for projects related to China, describing how they would connect the symposium experience to their teaching or research and ways that they would like to bring the experience back to Barnard to share with the broader campus community.</p>
<p><strong><img alt="" class="media-image media-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; width: 160px; height: 106px;" title="" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg_small/public/images/inline/callahan_68.jpg?itok=ScekHoQJ" width="160" height="106" /><a name="Hilary" id="Hilary"></a>Hilary Callahan, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences</strong><br /><strong><em>What motivated you to apply to be a Global Faculty Fellow this year? How does China (or Asia more generally) pertain to your scholarly interests?</em><br /></strong>I’m Barnard’s go-to person for anything involving plants. My research focuses on plant-genome-environment interactions and my teaching covers topics like urban ecology, agriculture, and food. For me, the timing was perfect because I had already been granted a Senior Faculty Research Leave for Spring 2014.<br /><br /><strong> </strong>I’m not a China expert, but I knew that Shanghai’s 2010 World Expo had spurred the creation of many new parks and that the city had experienced a boom in green roofs. This made it easy for me to connect to designers and other professionals who are promoting and implementing new urban green infrastructure projects. Also, there appear to be many locavores in Shanghai, just as there are in New York.</p>
<p><strong><em>What initiatives are you working on in relation to the symposium and Barnard's internationalization efforts, and/or your own research related to China?</em><br /></strong>For some time, a team of colleagues at Barnard and throughout the city have expressed interest in writing articles about integrating campus green roofs into science curricula and student-centered research projects. This trip is a great motivator for that project, as well as a chance to add a more global perspective.<br /><br /><strong> </strong>My teaching and my outreach to K-12 schools in NYC have often focused on how campus greening can be integrated into hands-on science lessons. Many schools in Shanghai are doing the same thing. I also see my trip as a chance to initiate some “sister projects” to potentially connect schools in New York and Shanghai.</p>
<p><strong><em>Have you traveled to China before? What are you most looking forward to about the symposium and the overall experience?</em><br /></strong>My research doesn’t involve a lot of travel because I focus on species and forests of temperate regions. I’ve never even traveled across the Pacific. Shanghai will be brand-new. I’m impressed by how many people, including many biology students, have been there before me. They’ve mentioned its awesome size, history, diversity, and innovation, and I’m sure I’ll hear more at the symposium. So, I’m ready to swallow my New York pride, and to eat some great local foods. I’m also excited to join the Global Symposium project before it comes back to our own city in 2015.<br />
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<p><strong><img alt="" class="media-image media-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; width: 220px; height: 166px;" title="" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg_small/public/news/images/032912_yvette_christianse.jpg?itok=FsZUlThN" width="220" height="166" /><a name="Yvette" id="Yvette"></a>Yvette Christiansë, Professor of English and Africana Studies</strong><br /><em><strong>What motivated you to apply to be a Global Faculty Fellow this year? How does China (or Asia more generally) pertain to your scholarly interests?</strong></em><br />
This will be my third attendance at a Barnard Global Symposium. Through involvement with the events in Johannesburg and Mumbai, I worked with Barnard colleagues and scholars in both countries to create new curricula taught by myself and colleagues at Barnard and also in South Africa (Cape Town) and India (Mumbai). Working closely with Catherine Sameh, who leads BCRW's Transnational Feminisms Initiative and now chairs the sub-committee on Global and International Curriculum and Programs, I am taking advantage of this year’s Symposium as an opportunity to meet with scholars in Shanghai and foster stronger curricula and research collaborations. I also simply love seeing our Barnard Global Symposium Student Fellows in action in spaces into which their own future careers may take them—they are so poised and impressive.<br /><br /><em> <strong>What initiatives are you working on in relation to the symposium and Barnard's internationalization efforts, and/or your own research related to China?</strong></em><br />
Catherine Sameh and I will do what we did in Mumbai, which is visiting different organizations and institutions to discuss possible future collaborations around gender and sexuality. For my own teaching, 'ships and shipping' feature heavily in my courses on Indian Ocean Africa and Indian Ocean diasporas. For my own research, I am interested in the Shanghai's role in Maritime networks that reached into the Indian Ocean, as well as the role this littoral city may have played in the transportation of indentured Chinese laborers to the early gold mines around Johannesburg, South Africa. I will also be visiting the University of Shanghai's Archives program to learn about Shanghai in this and the transportation of others to Cuba and the Americas, as part of a larger project about the predicament of the so-called Liberated Africans in the Indian and Atlantic Ocean.</p>
<p><em><strong>Have you traveled to China before? What are you most looking forward to about the symposium and the overall experience?</strong></em><br />
I have not traveled to China before so this is an exciting trip, made more so by the fact that I will be with colleagues and students. As for the symposium itself, I am keen to hear the range of speakers and learn about the pressing issues affecting their lives. In the past, the symposia have taught us about the emerging different priorities for different generations of feminists and activists and these have been instructive. This was particularly so at the symposium in South Africa, which was quite possibly one of the most important gatherings of leading figures from the anti-apartheid struggle—both from the women who benefitted most immediately from their efforts and from the next, upcoming generation. I am curious to see what the women who participate in this next symposium will prioritize, and also to see what it will mean to them to know that this is Barnard's second such symposium in China, making the Beijing symposium more than a 'one-off' event. It will be interesting to see how this may point us toward ways of integrating the differing symposia.</p>
<p><strong><img alt="" class="media-image media-image-left" height="241" style="float: left; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; width: 160px; height: 241px;" title="" width="160" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg_small/public/colleen_2.jpg?itok=t3Mhpe4Q" /><a name="Colleen" id="Colleen"></a>Colleen Thomas-Young, Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Dance</strong><br /><em><strong>What motivated you to apply to be a Global Faculty Fellow this year? How does China (or Asia more generally) pertain to your scholarly interests?</strong></em><br />
I was a Global Faculty Fellow last year when we went to Brazil and became very focused on the gradation of experience that woman have with inequality in different cultures. Gender inequality is a seed for a short dance film that I am currently finishing, and I have decided to make a larger work for the stage that is inspired by my research with women in America and in these different cultures.</p>
<p>I travel extensively with my dance company and have been to many places, Brazil and China included. But, women and their experiences with inequality have never been at the forefront of my practice. </p>
<p><em><strong>What initiatives are you working on in relation to the symposium and Barnard's internationalization efforts, and/or your own research related to China?</strong></em><br />
I am now working on a dance piece that questions how we as women behave, interact, and react in our prospective situations. I am interested in how our body absorbs a compliment versus an insult. How do women versus men express themselves in a new situation? How big is our kinesphere in different situations? Why is there such a big difference between a man’s and woman’s sense of space? What are the differences and interests in little girls, women, and older women’s movement? What happens when a man is present in the same situation? The answers to these questions can be intellectualized easily, but the manifestation of these questions in the body, are extremely interesting. I am using improvisation to answer these questions and letting the movement quality inform the flow of emotional connection in my new work.</p>
<p>In Shanghai, I will be teaching an improvisation workshop at the Shanghai Theater Academy of Dance. I am looking forward to bringing up these questions in the workshop and learning what is familiar and uncomfortable within the Chinese culture. </p>
<p>I am bringing Abby Chan, a choreographer and dancer from Hong Kong who is dancing in my new work. We are having an open improvisation jam after the class with the community. My hope is to bring Ms. Chan to Barnard in the spring of 2015 so that she can share her experience with my class, “Composition: Collaboration and the Creative Process.”<br /><br /><em> <strong>Have you traveled to China before? What are you most looking forward to about the symposium and the overall experience?</strong></em><br />
Although I have traveled to China, I have never been to Shanghai. I am excited and so grateful for this experience. I am looking forward to learning more about the culture.</p>
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</div></div></div>Tue, 25 Feb 2014 22:34:26 +0000avine32551 at https://barnard.eduBarnard announces Global Symposium Student Fellowshttps://barnard.edu/news/barnard-announces-global-symposium-student-fellows
<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-39" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">liberal arts</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-18" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">gender</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-10" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">global</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-54" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Asia</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-34" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">leadership</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-69" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">China</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Barnard is pleased to announce this year’s Global Symposium Student Fellows, who will travel to China in March to attend the College’s 6th Annual Global Symposium, <a href="https://barnard.edu/womenchangingchina2014"><em>Women Changing China</em></a>. These six students will also develop and facilitate a leadership workshop for high school students from around Shanghai.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-image media-image-left" height="213" style="float: left; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px;" width="160" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg_smallest/public/cinneah.jpeg?itok=cS6xs6lw" />Sophomore <strong>Cinneah El-Amin ’16</strong> is an urban studies major with a minor in English. In addition to her role as a Barnard Student Admissions Representative, she serves as secretary for the Barnard Organization of Soul Sisters and is an active member of the Columbia University cheerleading team and the Barnard/Columbia Rape Crisis/Anti-Violence Center. Last summer, she attended the inaugural Women in the World Next Generation Leadership Academy, which sparked her interest in international women’s empowerment. She looks forward to working with young women in Shanghai and bringing their stories back to Barnard. </p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-image media-image-left" height="256" style="float: left; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px;" width="160" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg_smallest/public/hilary.jpg?itok=cBQwwDjq" />Born and raised in Beijing, <strong>Qingqing (Hilary) He ’14</strong> is majoring in anthropology with a minor in economics. At Barnard, she is a Student Admissions Representative and the former director of administration for Columbia’s Global China Connection. She is currently interning with CBS, and has also had internship experience with the international broadcasting company Phoenix Television, China Central Television, and the 2012 Oracle OpenWorld conference in Shanghai. Hilary is excited for this opportunity to represent both China and Barnard, and looks forward to learning from the perspectives of the Chinese women she will meet at the symposium and leadership workshop.<br />
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<p><strong><img alt="" class="media-image media-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px; width: 220px; height: 230px; padding-bottom: 2.5em;" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg_small/public/adair_global_symposium_1.jpg?itok=mn1-9TTP" width="220" height="230" />Adair Kleinpeter-Ross ’14</strong> is majoring in Africana studies and human rights with a minor in visual arts. She is a research assistant at the Barnard Center for Research on Women and a Civic Engagement Fellow. Adair traveled to China in the spring of 2008 and has worked on various projects related to China. She has interned with the human rights organization Asia Catalyst, and has done independent research for the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.N. Development Programme. She is excited to learn what feminism and women's empowerment mean to high school girls in Shanghai.</p>
<p><strong><img alt="" class="media-image media-image-left" height="241" style="float: left; margin: 0px 1em 1em 0px;" width="160" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg_smallest/public/juliaqiancolor-2797_2.jpeg?itok=_QnG0R9I" />Julia (Jing) Qian ’15</strong> is a junior majoring in history with a concentration on "war, revolution and social changes." Before coming the U.S. for high school, Qian had lived in Hangzhou, an hour away from Shanghai. As a member of Barnard’s Student Government Association, she leads the committee on diversity. She also volunteers at Redeemer Presbyterian Church and interns with <em>Education Update</em>, a newspaper run by a Barnard alumna<em>. </em>For Julia, the Global Symposium serves as an extraordinary opportunity to give back to her home country. She is also eager to learn the difference between feminism in the East and West and how various cultural values and beliefs are incorporated into leadership styles. </p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-image" height="300" style="float:left;margin:0 1em 1em 0;" width="220" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg_small/public/stompkinspicture.jpg?itok=YtCl3JnK" />Sophomore <strong>Sabrina Tompkins ’16</strong> plans to be a political science major and currently works in the Barnard College Office of Career Development. She served as a peer counselor at the International Rescue Committee, and has also volunteered at a Head Start Program for the children of migrant workers. Sabrina is a longtime student of Mandarin—she traveled to China for a language program in 2010 and is currently taking advanced Chinese. She is excited to return to China and to hear from women leaders of this rapidly changing country. She also looks forward to conducting workshops in women's leadership for high school girls in both New York and Shanghai.</p>
<p><strong><img alt="" class="media-image" height="260" style="float:left;margin:0 1em 1em 0;" width="160" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg_smallest/public/georgina_0.jpeg?itok=i_df8c9Z" />Georgina Ustik ’16</strong>, a sophomore and art history major, serves as the secretary for Smart Women Lead, and is also a member of the Committee on Arts and a DJ for WBAR. For the past six years she has been studying Mandarin and during high school spent six weeks in China, where she lived in Beijing and attended the Shanghai World's Fair. She hopes to study abroad with Columbia’s Shanghai Business Summer Seminar. During the symposium, she looks forward to hearing women leaders speak on gender issues and to conduct the leadership workshop.</p>
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</div></div></div>Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:59:26 +0000avine30426 at https://barnard.eduThe Strategic Production of Chinese Immigrants as Model Minorities, 1948-1965https://barnard.edu/events/strategic-production-chinese-immigrants-model-minorities-1948-1965
<div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A lecture by Madeline Y. Hsu</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventdatedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Thursday, September 26, 2013</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventtimedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">6 PM</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventlocation field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomyevents field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type-3" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">lecture</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-3" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">culture</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-54" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Asia</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-44" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">history</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-24" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">immigration</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-25" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">migration</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-69" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">China</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics/asian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Asian</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Between the end of World War II and the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, Chinese immigrants rapidly evolved from a “yellow peril” to a “model minority.” This shift reveals how immigration laws and practices moved from ideological and legal considerations of race and national origin to preferences for individuals who were suited to America’s economic and employment needs post-1965, thus designating Chinese, and other Asian immigrants, as high achieving “model minorities.” Madeline Y. Hsu is director of the Center for Asian American Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of <em>Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943</em>.<br />
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<div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A lecture by Li Zhang</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventdatedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Tuesday, September 10, 2013</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventtimedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">6 PM</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventlocation field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomyevents field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type-3" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">lecture</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-3" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">culture</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-79" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">diversity</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-10" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">global</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-54" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Asia</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-24" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">immigration</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-25" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">migration</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-69" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">China</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>The Silk Routes represent one of the most marvelous phenomena in Eurasian history. Li Zhang employs recent and eye-opening archaeological discoveries to explore the circulation and interaction of people, objects, and customs among different Chinese societies and other regions of Eurasia over the course of several millennia. Li Zhang is a post-doctoral scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University. She received her PhD from the department of archaeology and museology at Peking University, and works on the archaeology and art of early China, as well as the interactions between early China and the other parts of Eurasia.<br />
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<p>In the 1920s and 30s, Shanghai was known as the “Paris of the East.” Trade burgeoned in this port city, and with it came the latest pleasures imported from the west. And, as in many places around the world, the so-called “new woman” was coming to the fore. It is against this backdrop that a fashion exhibition at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), curated with the expertise of Barnard history and women’s studies professor Dorothy Ko, is set. Curatorial advisor for this exhibit titled <em>Shanghai Glamour</em>, she worked with MOCA to tell the story of Shanghai’s “new woman” through the clothing they designed, made and wore.</p>
<h3>Feminism and Fashion</h3>
<p>Explains Ko, “Women started to become educated, went into the professions, and started to earn an income, really <em>living</em> on their own for the first time in Chinese history.” They watched movies and read magazines, all with western fashions. They needed smart but modest clothes to wear to the teachers colleges and nursing schools they were attending.</p>
<p><em>Shanghai Glamour </em>takes a decidedly feminist look at the era’s clothing. Ko explains, “These were newly liberated women who knew what they wanted. They would say ‘I want what those women are wearing in Paris but am going to put it in a different fabric.’ Or, they might wear a <em>qipao</em> [the long, form-fitting Chinese dress] with a Mary Jane heel or accessorize it with an imported handbag from Paris.” She adds, “The accent [of the exhibition] is on the feminist message of fashion, which is that fashion is about the people who personalize their clothing and wear them in whatever way they choose, to fit their lifestyle.”</p>
<p>The exhibition was spearheaded by MOCA’s executive director, Helen Koh ’85, who knew the professor’s work. “She seemed to have interesting, rich ideas, and also be someone who thought ‘out of the box.’ Dorothy helped us get to the core of the topic. She has profound knowledge about the period and the women, and she educated us about the period and its implications,” says Koh.</p>
<h3>Designs Yesterday and Today</h3>
<p>The exhibition includes clothing borrowed from the China National Silk Museum, as well as other style items, such as a Chinese fashion magazines. “<em>Shanghai Glamour</em> follows a topography of new roles in Shanghai—the female student, society ladies, and professional women,” says Ko. “It shows that China’s women were in charge of their own images and aware of what was going on in Paris or in New York but did not blindly follow the trend.”</p>
<p><em>Shanghai Glamour</em> is paired with another exhibition at MOCA, <em>Front Row</em> exploring 20th-century Chinese fashion designers, which executive director Koh says marries well with <em>Shanghai Glamour</em>. “New York today and Shanghai in the early 20th century share an international outlook and innovations in fashion rivaled only by Paris, London, and Milan. <em>Front Row </em>and <em>Shanghai Glamour </em>show the Chinese-American community at the center of a vibrant global history of creativity, business, and ability to translate across multiple cultures,” she says.</p>
<h3>Barnard and MOCA</h3>
<p>It is also worth noting the myriad connections between Barnard and MOCA. In addition to Koh and Ko, the museum’s board chair, Patricia Pei Tang ’67, director of operations Bonnie Chin Washburn ’90, director of individual giving Chun Yee Yip O’Neill ’97, and volunteer museum educator Wanda Chin ’77 are all Barnard alumnae, along with former executive director Fay Chew Matsuda ’71 and former interim director Jessica Chao ’75.</p>
<p>“There is a profound amount of Barnard brain power and creativity involved in starting the museum and keeping it running,” says Koh.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A film screening and discussion with Xu Xing and Andrea Cavazzuti</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventdatedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Thursday, November 15, 2012</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventtimedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">6:30 PM</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventlocation field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">EVENT OVAL, THE DIANA CENTER</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomyevents field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type-8" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">film</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-89" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">film</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-69" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">China</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>In this inaugural event, The Barnard International Artists series is bringing two artists who have made a unique film about a suburb of Beijing that has become a haven for Chinese contemporary artists. Xu Xing, an eminent Chinese writer turned filmmaker, and Andrea Cavazzuti, an Italian filmmaker living and working in Beijing for the past 30 years, have come together to make <em>5+5</em>, a film that is at once poignant, moving and humorous. It offers an unprecedented look into this vibrant and avant-garde contemporary art scene hidden behind China’s formal facade. At the heart of the film is Mr Jin, a taxi driver and modern-day Don Quixote, who drives artists around the city. It is through his perspective that we are offered a window into both contemporary China and, more universally, the condition of the artist in the modern world.</p>
<p>The Barnard International Artist Series is a forum for thinking about the world through the arts. The series aims to offer students, faculty and friends of Barnard College an opportunity to think about contemporary international realities through the works and ideas of living artists.</p>
<p><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">MEET THE ARTISTS</b></p>
<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Wednesday, 11/14 6:30 PM </div>
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<h2><strong>We are a forum that considers the world through the works and words of living artists.</strong></h2>
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<p>Based at Barnard College in Manhattan, New York City, the Barnard International Artists Series involves students in the world of contemporary artists and thinkers and their work. Every year we invite artists: writers, filmmakers, dancers, dramatists, visual artists, architects and composers from all over the world to speak about and show their work. The series was founded by its principle curator, the novelist, Hisham Matar. </p>
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<p>ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.<br />
You can also find us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BarnardInternationalArtistsSeries">Facebook</a>.</p>
<p>For information, contact <a href="mailto:hmatar@barnard.edu">hmatar@barnard.edu</a></p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:40:39 +0000mvr211218596 at https://barnard.eduThe Girl Who Burned the Banknotes: Rural Women, Memory, and China's Collective Pasthttps://barnard.edu/events/girl-who-burned-banknotes-rural-women-memory-and-chinas-collective-past-0
<div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Women&#039;s History Month Lecture</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventdatedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Thursday, March 3, 2012</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventtimedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">6:30</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventlocation field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomyevents field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type-3" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">lecture</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-10" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">global</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-54" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Asia</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-44" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">history</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-69" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">China</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the inquiry? In this talk, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Centering on the story of Zhang Chaofeng, a former child daughter-in-law, the talk explores the question of whether women had a revolution, examining the nature of socialism and how gender figured in its creation. Gail Hershatter is distinguished professor and chair of the department of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is a past president of the Association for Asian Studies. Her most recent book is The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past.</p>
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</div></div></div>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:25:27 +0000ddiperna2820 at https://barnard.eduProf. Paul Martin discusses Nobel Peace Prize awarded to jailed Chinese dissidenthttps://barnard.edu/headlines/paul-martin-professor-human-rights-studies-discusses-nobel-peace-prize-awarded-jailed
<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-69" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">China</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-26" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">human rights</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>"There's a moral context here—this is a statement about freedom of speech, and that this is important to the world. I'm sure it's a message the Norwegian committee wants to give China, namely: by having a freer society, you will have a better society," says human rights professor Paul Martin on "<a href="http://www.thetakeaway.org/2010/oct/08/nobel-peace-prize/">The Takeaway</a>".</p>
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</div></div></div>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000smin1626 at https://barnard.eduProf. Alexander Cooley on Chinese presence in Kyrgyzstanhttps://barnard.edu/headlines/prof-alexander-cooley-chinese-presence-kyrgyzstan
<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-54" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Asia</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-69" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">China</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Political science professor and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090707448_pf.html">Central Asia expert Alexander Cooley</a> talks about China's growing hostility in regional affairs. From <em>The Washington Post</em>:</p>
<p>"China has also had limited success with its main diplomatic initiative for the region, a group of states known as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Launched with great fanfare in 2001 as an organization that would combat "extremism" and be a counterweight to American influence, it generated "lots of hype but in reality has done nothing," said Alexander Cooley."</p>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000smin1701 at https://barnard.eduLife and Legacy of Kang Tongbihttps://barnard.edu/headlines/life-and-legacy-kang-tongbi
<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-179" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">alumnae</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-17" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">women</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-10" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">global</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-69" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">China</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><img alt="Kang Tongbi" class="image-inline_medium" src="https://barnard.edu/../../sites/default/files/styles/inline_medium/public/images/inline/kang_tongbi.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 1em 1em 0pt; width: 223px; height: 308px;" title="" /><strong>From the Barnard College Archives: </strong>In the October 18, 1908 edition of <em>The New York Times</em>, a short article on page 20 headlined this news: “Chinese Noblewoman Here: Miss Kang Tong Pih Joins the Senior Class at Barnard.” A touching mix of “society” news and unintentional humor, with just a hint of astonishment at the young woman’s worldliness, the article reported that Barnard dormitory authorities were happy to see her “not only because she is a favorite at Brook’s (sic) Hall, but also because she had engaged the most expensive suite there, and until [the day before] no one knew where she was.”</p>
<p>Exactly one month later, the <em>New York Evening Mail </em>reported the death of the Chinese emperor, and Miss Kang, now referred to as a princess, tells the <em>Mail’s </em>reporter that friends in the Chinese court telegraphed her about the emperor’s horrific poisoning at the hands of an unnamed high minister. The reporter also quotes Kang as saying that her father, once an advisor to the emperor and a reform leader in China, “is in hiding in England.” She also predicts China will be racked by civil war, but just who was this young woman to speak so authoritatively about current events of the day?</p>
<p>Kang Tongbi (<em>aka </em>Kang Tung Pih) was the second daughter of the late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Chinese political reformer Kang Youwei. The exact date of her birth is in dispute, but according to Kang Youwei’s personal journals, she was born in 1880 in southern China. Because of her father’s position, she grew up in Beijing in the midst of the emperor’s court. Her father was also a scholar and vehemently opposed to the traditional practice of foot-binding, refusing to bind his daughters’ feet. This decision no doubt helped to mold Kang Tongbi’s independent, activist character—a radical departure from the accepted social deportment expected of women of her stature and her time.</p>
<p>Kang Youwei’s influence in the Chinese government lasted only about 100 days before he was exiled by the Empress Dowager Cixi. Even in exile, he traveled around the world to lobby for social reform in China while Kang Tongbi was sent to relatives in Hong Kong. Besides the Mandarin of the imperial court and the Cantonese of her birthplace that she already spoke, Kang Tongbi also studied English, French, Italian, and Hindi.</p>
<p>She arrived in the United States in August 1903, to study and to generate overseas support for her father’s Reform Party. Kang founded a women’s branch of the Chinese Empire Reform Society in Tacoma, Washington, then made her way to British Columbia, San Francisco, Chicago, and finally New York City. Although very young, she was comfortable making public speeches (in both Cantonese and English) before large crowds of both Chinese and non-Chinese spectators.</p>
<p>On October 20, 1903, the New York Ladies’ Branch of the Chinese Empire Reform Society was born at a public meeting. <em>The New-York Tribune </em>reported Kang’s words: “I want them to read papers,” she said earnestly. “I want them to know things. I want them to help to make things go right and to have grand education ...Why should not we women stand together and help each other?” After briefly attending Radcliffe College, then Trinity College in Connecticut, she entered Barnard in February 1907, as a member of the Class of 1909, the very first Asian student to study at the College.</p>
<p>Devoted to women’s rights and reform, she intended to broaden the scope of her activism once she left Barnard. She was quoted in the <em>New York Evening Mail</em>, “When I finish here, I am going back to China to wake up my countrywomen. I am deeply interested in suffrage, and hope to arouse the women of China to a realization of their rights.”</p>
<p>After the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, Kang Tongbi returned to China where she continued to agitate for feminist causes. She was an editor and contributor for <em>Nüxuebao </em>(Women’s Education), one of the first women’s journals in China. Like her father, she took a stand against the practice of foot-binding, establishing and co-leading a <em>Tianzuhui </em>(Natural Feet Society) with other Chinese feminists. Kang Tongbi is also remembered for her <em>Biography of Kang Youwei</em>, published in 1958. She stayed in mainland China after the Communist takeover in 1949. While she seems to have been left alone by the new regime for a while, she was jailed during the Cultural Revolution and died on August 17, 1969.</p>
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